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  • Whenever I try and get a proper explanation of a monad from the internet I get these miserable opaque examples which make me go “sorry I asked!” But I think a monad is basically just single type that when unwrapped gives you the result of a calculation and some metadata about the calculation.

    I think it’s more like Rust’s Result or Option types then go’s tuples but I’d say they both basically count.


  • Nah, I recently had to create a program that turned a bunch of extracted CSV files into an XML file for government reporting. I also had to parse some provided government XML files to add things into my output.

    This was going to be run by non-technical people on any OS so I went for python because “install python, download this file and click on it” was easy. Python has a big standard library so I could do everything I needed in it. I was considering using Go but asking people to open the terminal and build something was probably a bridge too far.





  • Solemarc@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldDid nightreign flop?
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    6 months ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s a flop but it is kinda light on content. I finished they game on week 1 played a bit more on week 2 where nothing changed I then uninstalled it. I’m back right now because they’ve released new content though.

    Most games do have huge concurrent player falloffs pretty quickly helldivers 2 currently has a 24hr peak of 63k and I wouldn’t call it a flop. Path of Exile 2 currently has a 24hr peak of 17k players, I wouldnt call it a flop. Somehow Dragon age veilguard was at the top of the steam charts in week 1 and we all know it was a flop. I’m not sure steam charts are a particularly useful metric. Fromsoft seems very happy with the amount of players in NightReign and that’s probably the most useful metric we have.



  • My completely unqualified position is that manjaro is not more stable than arch, in fact, according to the news manjaro’s changes are just more instability. I’ve been running basic arch & KDE for 6 months now and it hasn’t been perfect. The biggest issue I’ve had so far is; “using the scroll wheel in the KDE start menu will crash the DE” and that was fixed in a day.








  • I agree with you, it was more of a commentary on “what would happen if we had AGI tomorrow”.

    We’ve been 3 months away from AGI for a few years now and it’s debatable if we’ll ever get there with LLM’s. Looking into the results of AI tests and benchmarks show that they are heavily gamed (tbf, all benchmarks are gamed.) With AI though, there’s so much money involved, it’s ridiculous.

    Fortunately it looks like reality is slowly coming back. Microsoft’s CEO said that something like “AI solutions are not addressing customer problems.” Maybe I’m in a bubble but I feel like overall, people are starting to cool on AI and the constant hype cycle.


  • I’d agree that in the short term, AI is overhyped and in the long term, who really knows.

    One thing I’ve always found funny though is that if we have AI’s that can replace programmers then don’t we also, by definition, have AI’s that can create AI’s? Isn’t that literally the start of the “singularity”, where every office worker is out of a job in a week and labourers only lasting long enough for our AI overlords to sort out robot bodies?